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  • Swine flu may have hit one peak; more to come Posted 6 minutes ago

    Ukraine's fans, wearing face masks as preventive measures against the H1N1 flu, cheer during the sec WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The pandemic of swine flu may be hitting a peak in the Northern Hemisphere, global health officials said on Friday, but they cautioned it was far from over. Officials also said they were investigating several troubling outbreaks of drug-resistant H1N1 but noted they were limited so far and ... More

  • No Obama decision on Afghan until after Thanksgiving Posted 2 hours, 37 minutes ago

    U.S. Army soldiers of A-BTRY 2/377 PFAR Task Force Steel operate a 105mm Howitzer during a fire miss WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's announcement of a new strategy on Afghanistan will not take place until after the Thanksgiving holiday next week, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Friday. Obama is considering whether to add thousands more U.S. troops to Afghanistan. He said during a just-concluded trip ... More

  • Somalia to join child rights pact, only U.S. outside Posted 3 hours, 50 minutes ago

    A boy carries bricks on his head in N'Djamena GENEVA (Reuters) - Somalia has announced it plans to ratify a global treaty aimed at protecting children, leaving the United States as the only country outside the pact, UNICEF said Friday. Somalia and the United States have long been the last hold-outs to the Convention on the Rights of the Child ... More

  • Cautious optimism as job losses slow in U.S. states Posted 4 hours, 8 minutes ago

    People look for work at state employment department in San Francisco WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The pace of job losses slowed in many U.S. states in October, and the unemployment rate slipped in hard-hit Michigan, the Labor Department said on Friday, hinting the recession may be easing in some areas. Michigan's jobless rate fell to 15.1 percent in October from ... More

  • EU names Belgian PM Van Rompuy as first president Posted 6 hours, 22 minutes ago

    Belgium's PM Van Rompuy and EU Trade Commissioner Ashton are congratulated after they were elected a BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders named Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy, who is little known outside his own country, as the bloc's first president on Thursday to lead efforts to make it more influential on the world stage. They also chose Baroness Catherine Ashton, a Briton little known ... More

  • Colombia says will not be provoked by Venezuela Posted 6 hours, 25 minutes ago

    Colombians walk next to a destroyed bridge that crosses into Colombia's Norte de Santander departmen BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia will not be provoked into armed conflict with Venezuela despite the neighboring country's aggressive rhetoric and its dynamiting of two cross-border pedestrian bridges, Colombia's defense minister said on Friday. "We will not be provoked. The insults bounce off us," Gabriel Silva told local radio a ... More

  • Did U.S. make a swine flu mistake? Posted 6 hours, 52 minutes ago

    A nurse prepares a H1N1 flu vaccine shot at a hospital in Budapest WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As U.S. health officials struggle to vaccinate tens of millions of Americans against the pandemic of swine flu, some are looking regretfully at one easy way to instantly double or triple the number of doses available -- by using an immune booster called an adjuvant. These additives, often ... More

  • Powers urge Iran to reconsider nuclear offer Posted 9 hours, 11 minutes ago

    BRUSSELS/BERLIN (Reuters) - Senior officials from six world powers said on Friday they were disappointed Iran had not accepted proposals intended to delay its potential to make nuclear bombs, and urged Tehran to reconsider. But the officials, from Britain, France, the United States, Germany, Russia and China, stopped short of ... More

  • U.S. missile strike kills 8 in Pakistan Posted 10 hours, 26 minutes ago

    PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Eight Islamist militants were killed in a U.S. missile strike in northwest Pakistan on Friday, officials said, after three policemen were killed in a bomb blast. The attack came shortly before the director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which oversees the drone strikes ... More

  • U.S. soldier admits may have driven car in Japan crash Posted 11 hours, 13 minutes ago

    TOKYO (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier has admitted he may have run over a Japanese man found dead two weeks ago on the southern island of Okinawa, his lawyer said on Friday, in a case that may further strain ties between the two countries. Under an agreement that irritates many ... More